Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 103

The wall seemed to have no door, nor any windows, but rose up, lofty, and massive, and mysterious, and was neither to be clambered over, nor, as far as Theseus could perceive, to be passed through.

Who acts: wall, Theseus · What happens: seem, have, rise up, be, perceive, pass through · To what, where: windows, door

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall, Theseus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 windows	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 windows	cc
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seemed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rose	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 rose	cc
14	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 rose	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lofty	punct
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rose	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 massive	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 massive	cc
20	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lofty	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mysterious	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mysterious	cc
23	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lofty	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 clambered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clambered	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 clambered	cop
27	neither	neither	ADV	_	30 clambered	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	30 clambered	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 clambered	aux:pass
30	clambered	clamber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seemed	parataxis
31	over	over	ADV	_	30 clambered	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 perceive	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 perceive	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nor	punct
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 far	advmod
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 perceive	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 perceive	mark
38	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 perceive	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 perceive	aux
40	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 clambered	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 passed	punct
42	to	to	PART	_	44 passed	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 passed	aux:pass
44	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 perceive	conj
45	through	through	ADV	_	44 passed	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the wall	any windows		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	the wall not said here	no door		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	rise up	past	the wall not said here		lofty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · passive			clamber, neither, over property	tree rules
5	perceive	could	Theseus		far property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	pass through	to-infinitive · passive	Theseus not said here		through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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